Inside a Pokéball

There’s this question I’ve been sitting with for fifteen years: what’s inside a Pokéball? Are the creatures compressed into the sphere? Stored as data? Do the balls work like tiny black holes that just catch and release on command?

Bruno Clas illustrated it—not the mechanism, but what the three starters actually do when they’re in there. Bulbasaur’s bathing. Squirtle’s grilling something. Charmander’s asleep. They’ve built lives in there. They’re fine.

It lands differently than you’d expect. The Pokéball isn’t a cage or a storage unit. It’s just where they exist when you’re not looking.